[Illustration] This is the head of the wide-spread family of Buller,
of which there are several branches in the Western counties. The
first recorded ancestor appears to be Ralph Buller, who in the
fourteenth century was seated at Woode, in the hundred of South
Petherton, and county of Somerset, by an heiress of Beauchamp. They
became possessed of Lillesdon, in the same county, and afterwards,
by an heiress of Trethurffe, we find them at Tregarrick, in
Cornwall, but were not till the eighteenth century of Downes, which
came from the coheiress of Gould.
Younger branches. Buller of Morval and of Lanreath, both in the
county of Cornwall. Buller of Lupton, in this county, Baronet 1790,
Baron Churston 1858.
See Lysons, cxxxvi.; Carew's Cornwall, ed. 1st, p. 133 b; and
Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, ii. 38.
ARMS.--_Sable, on a plain cross argent, quarter pierced, four eagles
of the field_.
Present Representative, James Wentworth Buller, Esq.